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Ali Gray
Ali Gray's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
TheShiznit.co.uk
Movies reviews only
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You, Me and Dupree (2006) |
You, Me And Dupree is a film that is almost instantly forgettable. Even now, a few hours after watching it, I'm struggling to remember character names... - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Apr 22, 2020
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Gemini Man (2019) |
What's truly baffling is why a movie boasting such impressive visuals would be sold so short by a story that feels like something Steven Seagal would have passed on in 1998. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Nov 02, 2019
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Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) |
Dark Fate manages to scrape an above average grade by clinging closely to the Terminator tropes with the kind of white-knuckled death grip that only three failed sequels can inspire. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Nov 02, 2019
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Rocketman (2019) |
Rocketman feels precisely as cynical as Elton's mawkish John Lewis advert: an extension of the same endless, needless and unremarkable one-man marketing campaign. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted May 21, 2019
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Booksmart (2019) |
Booksmart has a cock-sure strut - it's a film that's big on confidence, thicc with swagger and it hums with the virility of youth - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted May 06, 2019
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) |
Funnier than Spider-Man: Homecoming and more exciting than Avengers, Into The Spider-Verse is the most perfect embodiment of Spider-Man to date - Stan Lee would be proud. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Nov 30, 2018
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Halloween (2018) |
Halloween (2018) is hollow and joyless, like a sad old pumpkin left out to rot - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Oct 11, 2018
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First Man (2018) |
Telling the movie through the eyes of Armstrong is a mission in itself; to paraphrase JFK, it's a choice to tell a story not because it is easy, but because it is hard. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Sep 30, 2018
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The House With a Clock in Its Walls (2018) |
It ticks all the boxes but it feels more like a respectful imitation of an Amblin movie as opposed to one that truly embodies its spirit. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Sep 19, 2018
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Christopher Robin (2018) |
Jim Cummings brings the bear of little brain to life, and the heart cannot help but flutter in his presence. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Aug 14, 2018
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) |
It's the most effective execution of the Mission: Impossible formula so far - a heady mix of humour, action and adventure, distilled to its purest form. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Jul 13, 2018
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The First Purge (2018) |
If you were hoping for some real insight into what could make a bent and broken nation finally snap, you won't find it here. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Jul 11, 2018
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) |
[Director J.A.] Bayona does some wonderful things with light, dark and shadow... but otherwise the attempt to shoehorn dinosaurs into a haunted house monster movie is an ill fit. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Jun 18, 2018
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Journeyman (2017) |
It's a straightforward story but familiar beats are delivered with hammer blows, courtesy of a staggering central performance from Considine that'll leave you in a daze. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Mar 28, 2018
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Mom and Dad (2017) |
Movies that burn through this much bluster usually struggle to sustain interest, but Mom & Dad is just practicing what it preaches: at 83 minutes long, it dies before it gets old. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Feb 28, 2018
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I, Tonya (2017) |
Characters skate around the truth with almost as much dexterity as they do the ice rink - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Feb 25, 2018
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Black Panther (2018) |
Soundtracked by an authentic score, the movie has an electric rhythmicality; every scene bounces as if dancing to the beat of its own drum. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Feb 09, 2018
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The Five-Year Engagement (2012) |
One of those romantic comedies that spends too much time unnecessarily creating drama for its characters. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Feb 06, 2018
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The Raid: Redemption (2011) |
The Raid is a martial arts movie of such ferocious pace, you'll swear you're watching it on the wrong speed. A shaken-up energy drink of a movie, once unleashed it fizzes out of the can, leaving you adrenalized - and sticky. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Feb 06, 2018
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Ted (2012) |
Like Family Guy, Ted's obsession with fame, celebrity and brainless sight gags means it's content being merely funny now but forgettable in the long term. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Feb 06, 2018
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American Reunion (2012) |
American Pie: Reunion does exactly what's expected of it, no more, no less - it's less a fresh slice of pie and more of a re-bake. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Feb 06, 2018
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Hesher (2010) |
Perhaps more interesting than outright entertaining, Hesher is something of an acquired taste. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Feb 06, 2018
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John Carter (2012) |
It's such a soul-sucking, humourless mess of technobabble and gobble-de-gook, I'm pretty sure sitting through it made me a Scientologist or something. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Feb 06, 2018
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Justice League (2017) |
It wasn't evil aliens that defeated the Justice League: it was facial hair. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Nov 20, 2017
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Molly's Game (2017) |
Smart, slick and - thanks to a towering Jessica Chastain performance - more than a bit sexy - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Nov 04, 2017
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The Snowman (2017) |
An extremely broad Nordic noir parody, or at the very least a join-the-dots handbook for the genre impaired: Scandinavian Crime Drama for Dummies. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Oct 12, 2017
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The LEGO NINJAGO Movie (2017) |
Pathos and charm required from original LEGO Movie, not sold separately. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Oct 12, 2017
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Blade Runner 2049 (2017) |
Fully fleshed out with a fierce imagination and sharp good looks, it doesn't matter if Blade Runner 2049 is a replica of an original model - it's even better than the real thing. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Oct 03, 2017
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) |
An occasionally inventive action flick that is nonetheless torpedoed by an off-colour joke so brazen and shameless it defies belief. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Sep 20, 2017
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mother! (2017) |
One of the most relentlessly intense, gut-churning portrayals of escalating madness ever captured on screen. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Sep 12, 2017
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War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) |
Perhaps this is a fitting end to a franchise that had absolutely no right to produce movies as good as it did. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Jul 07, 2017
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Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) |
The whole movie is a weird, unsettling mix of juvenile storytelling and military fetishism, but it never fails to entertain, even if for the wrong reasons. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Jun 20, 2017
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Miss Sloane (2016) |
Think a female Michael Clayton. It's Michelle Clayton. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted May 13, 2017
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Alien: Covenant (2017) |
At long last, the Alien franchise has evolved. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted May 11, 2017
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The Fate of the Furious (2017) |
The moves are telegraphed way in advance, like idiots playing chess, but you always get your money from the play set - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Apr 10, 2017
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Ghost in the Shell (2017) |
I want to personally high five every graphic designer and digital artist who pulled extra shifts and worked weekends on this movie. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Apr 01, 2017
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Elle (2016) |
A fascinating yet flawed study of modern feminism. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Mar 10, 2017
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Logan (2017) |
Logan, and Jackman, know you can't secure a legacy by leaving a door open. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Mar 09, 2017
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A Cure for Wellness (2016) |
A Shutter Island horror knock-off that's not scary, starring the supermarket own-brand Leonardo DiCaprio, that's at least an hour too long. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Feb 21, 2017
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Split (2016) |
Shyamalan has managed to deliver a fiercely effective, ferociously funny and genuinely gory horror movie, all without relying on a last act rug-pull. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Jan 19, 2017
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xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017) |
xXx: Return Of Xander Cage is very much an old person's idea of what they think young people want to watch. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Jan 19, 2017
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Passengers (2016) |
Can't decide if it's a blockbuster or a character piece and ends up being neither. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Dec 19, 2016
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Moana (2016) |
A touch too familiar to qualify as a modern classic, Moana is a relentlessly entertaining spectacle rooted in authenticity with a talent pool so deep you can swim in it. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Nov 28, 2016
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Doctor Strange (2016) |
The worst thing you can say about Doctor Strange is that it doesn't aim high enough. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Nov 03, 2016
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) |
An inward-looking comedy that's not afraid to poke fun at its country's own foibles but still manages to feel like a celebration of life on a little island. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Sep 15, 2016
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The Magnificent Seven (2016) |
They say each generation deserves their own version of a classic story, and Magnificent 7 is the version this generation deserves: polished but still remarkably unremarkable. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Sep 15, 2016
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Finding Dory (2016) |
We're now at a point in the history of animation where animators can tell a joke with a facial expression shared between a fish and a cephalopod. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Jul 31, 2016
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Star Trek Beyond (2016) |
It trades a nice line in the 'big dumb fun' brand of stupidity, instead of the 'hound Damon Lindelof off Twitter' variety. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted Jul 21, 2016
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X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) |
X-Men: Apocalypse is a clumsy comic-book caricature. There are literally sequences in this movie that were predicted in Deadpool. - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted May 19, 2016
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Captain America: Civil War (2016) |
Arguably the movie that the previous 12 Marvel adventures have all been working towards - TheShiznit.co.uk
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| Posted May 05, 2016
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